Оглавление
John Keay. China: A History
China. John Keay
Copyright
Contents
INTRODUCTION. REWRITING THE PAST
SPADEWORK
CRADLE, CORE AND BEYOND
THE DYNASTIC DYNAMIC
THE TRIUMPH OF PINYIN
A MATTER OF SCALE
1 RITES TO WRITING
THE GREAT BEGINNING
GLINT OF BRONZE
FINDING FAMILY
IN THE ORACULAR
2 SAGES AND HEROES
FOOTPRINTS OF ZHOU
LESS SPRING THAN AUTUMN
THE CONFUCIAN CONVEYANCE
WARRING STATES AND STATIST WARS
3 THE FIRST EMPIRE
STONE CATTLE ROAD
QIN’S CULTURAL REVOLUTION
CRUMBLING WALL, HIDDEN TOMB
4 HAN ASCENDANT
QIN IMPLODES
PAWN TO KING
JADED MONARCHS
5 WITHIN AND BEYOND
HAN AND HUN
EXPLORER ZHANG AND THE WESTERN REGIONS
ADMINISTERING AN EMPIRE
CONFUCIAN FUNDAMENTALISM
6 WANG MANG AND THE HAN REPRISE
A ONE-MAN DYNASTY
ACROSS THE WATERSHED
DECLINE AND FALL
7 FOUR HUNDRED YEARS OF VICISSITUDE
THREE KINGDOMS AND THE RED CLIFFS
DAO AND THE CELESTIAL MASTERS
ENTER THE ENLIGHTENED ONE
INTO THE ABYSS
LUOYANG AGAIN
8 SUI, TANG AND THE SECOND EMPIRE
INTERCALARY CONJUNCTION
SUI-CIDE
SONS OF THE SUNSET AND THE SUNRISE
BEYOND THE JADE GATE
9 HIGH TANG
WANTON, NOT WAYWARD
THE GREATEST POWER IN ASIA
LIKE A BREATH OF SPRING
A TURNING POINT
10 RECONFIGURING THE EMPIRE
LOW TANG
FIVE DYNASTIES OR TEN KINGDOMS
SONG AND LIAO
11 CAVING IN
THE GREAT STATE OF WHITE AND HIGH
REFORM AND REAPPRAISAL
IN SINGING-GIRL TOWERS
JIN AND SONG
12 BY LAND AND SEA
SUNSET OF THE SONG
MONGOL REUNIFICATION
MONGOL MISADVENTURES
TRIUMPH OF THE MING
13 THE RITES OF MING
FROM THE EDGE OF THE SKY TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH
MISADVENTURES AND MISFORTUNES
THE GREAT RITES CONTROVERSY
LANDMARKS AND INROADS
14 THE MANCHU CONQUEST
OVERWHELMING MING
FROM JURCHEN TO MANCHU
MUCH IN DEMAND
ZUNGHARIA, XINJIANG AND TIBET
15 DEATH THROES OF EMPIRE
SELF-EVIDENT TRUTHS
INSULTS AND OPIUM
TAIPING AND TIANJIN
16 REPUBLICANS AND NATIONALISTS
BRUSH TO PEN
FROM EMPIRE TO REPUBLIC
WAR AND MORE WAR
LONG MARCH, LONG WAR
EPILOGUE
If you enjoyed China: A History, check out these other great John Keay titles
NOTES
EPIGRAPHS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: RITES TO WRITING, PRE-C. 1050 BC
CHAPTER 2: SAGES AND HEROES, C. 1050 BC-C. 250 BC
CHAPTER 3: THE FIRST EMPIRE, C. 250-210 BC
CHAPTER 4: HAN ASCENDANT, 210–141 BC
CHAPTER 5: WITHIN AND BEYOND, 141 BC–AD 1
CHAPTER 6: WANG MANG AND THE HAN REPRISE, AD 1–189
CHAPTER 7: FOUR HUNDRED YEARS OF VICISSITUDE, 189–550
CHAPTER 8: SUI, TANG AND THE SECOND EMPIRE, 550–650
CHAPTER 9: HIGH TANG, 650–755
CHAPTER 10: RECONFIGURING THE EMPIRE, 755–1005
CHAPTER 11: CAVING IN, 1005–1235
CHAPTER 12: BY LAND AND SEA, 1235–1405
CHAPTER 13: THE RITES OF MING, 1405–1620
CHAPTER 14: THE MANCHU CONQUEST, 1620–1760
CHAPTER 15: DEATH THROES OF EMPIRE, 1760–1880
CHAPTER 16: REPUBLICANS AND NATIONALISTS, 1880–1950
EPILOGUE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
About the Author
By the Same Author
Praise
About the Publisher
Отрывок из книги
For Julia
Confucius, The Analects, Book I, i1
.....
Sadly – indeed catastrophically for the wider understanding of China – few of these names will be familiar to readers primed on existing works in English. Until recently the Emperor Tang Taizong usually appeared in English translation as T’ang T’ai-tsung, Emperor Song Renzong as Sung Jen-tsung and the Qing Qianlong emperor as the Ch’ing Ch’ien-lung emperor. Hebei and Henan provinces were Hopei and Honan, Beijing was Peking, and the Giant Panda was not Daxiongmao but Ta-hsiung-mao. Something like 75 per cent of all Romanised renderings of Chinese characters have been changed in the last thirty years, often beyond the point of easy recognition. In the long run, the change can only be for the good, although at the present time it remains a challenge and a source of no little confusion.
Previously a system called Wade-Giles (after its two late nineteenth-century creators) governed the spelling of Chinese words in English. Wade-Giles was not straightforward, involving nearly as much diacritic punctuation – hyphens, single inverted commas – as letters. More disastrously, its use was far from universal. Another system was common in the United States, and other European languages had their own systems. To say that linguistic scholarship was failing the student of China would be an understatement. Standardisation became imperative.
.....
